Haul: Milani bright, bold lipsticks

Sweet Nectar - bright matte popsicle orange. I quite like it on my skintone. I like to bronze my self up to NC45-ish, and the color looks gorgeous!

Hot Pink Rage - OMG! I freaking love this color. Folks say its a dupe for MAC Candy Yum Yum. I dont have the MAC color, so who knows! It's a beautiful bright pink. It seems neutral pink on my lips (not too strong blue or orange based pink)

Uptown Mauve - lovely purple. It has more purple than MAC Girl about Town. It has a bit too much purple that it makes my pigmentation around my mouth look gray. Will play with it some more..

(left to right) Uptown Mauve, Hot Pink Rage, Sweet Nectar
MAC Girl About Town (on top)

(Top to bottom) Sweet Nectar, Hot Pink Rage, Uptown Mauve...
Left - MAC Girl About Town

Haul: New foundations

As you can probably tell, skincare and flawless base are my new obsessions! I love MAC full coverage, but of late I have been braving something more dewy. So here are the foundations I have accumulated in the past few months...

All of the new foundations

Cover FX total cover liquid in G50, Koh Gen Do Moisture in 023, CoverFX Cream in G50

MAC Mineralize Moisture in NC40, MAC Face and Body in C4, GA Luminous Silk in 6.5

Dolce and Gabbana cream foundation in Soft Sand and Bronze

Spring in Paris + shopping = BLISS!!

French Pharmacy Haul!!!

Hi all

Long time no see - I was MIA since I was traveling for business. I was in Paris and went a bit crazy with skincare products.

Here is what I bought! Please let me know if you would like me to review anything in particular:

Face moisturizers - I have really dry sensitive skin. I am quite enjoying LRP Nutritic Rich cream

Diacneal is my HG treatment. It has not been replaced by TriAcneal

The Nivea creams are just wonderful for dry, cracked hands!

Nuxe dry oil is so LUXURIOUS! The balm leaves a mattish-texture

I prefer this micellar water to Bioderma!

Shampoos with Argan oil! 

India haul - skincare and haircare products

Here are a few things I picked up from my trip to India. I was just not drawn to any new cosmetics since I got a few Lakme items when my relative visited me in Oct, and I was very under-whelmed by them :(

I am a huge Biotique fan. Their products are all natural, affordable, and very effective!!  As I am getting older, my hair is thinning out a lot. One of the Indian hairstylists that I visited recommended I try bhringraj oil, so I bought a few different brands. I have finished the Dabur one, and I enjoyed it tremendously.

My hair fell out in clumps the first few times I massaged my hair with oil, but the hair fall stopped eventually. The oil eventually has even reduced my hair fall further. To be honest, I dont know if its the oil itself or the regular hair massage. I use it every weekend, and leave it on overnight.

Dabur's Bhringraj Oil

Loving them all! I add a few drops of rosemary and peppermint essential oils to coconut oil for hair massage

I bought the Neutrogena cleansing oil on my stopover in the Hong Kong airport

Seoul haul - part 4 (Misc and samples)

Here are some misc things I bought, and check out the samples I gathered..

I tried this "whitening" pack - and did not like it at all. Huge fail :(

Bath salts from a cute store in Insadong (I will look up the name soon)

Holy samples!!!!

Lakme Absolute Haul

For my non Indian readers, Lakme is a very popular Indian brand. A family friend was visiting and I asked her to get a few Lakme Absolute products since that line was recently launched in India.

Here is what I got. I can take pictures of swatches if you like, just let me know which ones. Also I got 2 eye products, and forgot to include them. I will add those later.

Overall haul - 2 eye products are missing

Baked blushes: night sheen (must have), day sheer (skip - too glittery)

Bronzer - they one have one shade. A touch too dark for me

Highlighter bronzer combo - very pretty!

6 shades Lip Sync - I love the lower left color. Rest are too dark/frosty for me. Skip

Brilliant Kiss and Pure Glam - texture is divine and soft and creamy

Brilliant Kiss and Pure Glam

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Lakme Love Haze - MUST have! packging is so cute!

Plumshine and Barry Shine

Plum shine and Berry shine lip glosses....Maybeliine coral pink far right side